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...however, President Little did not give up his research. With Professor W. T. Bovie of the Harvard Medical School, he experimented with the application of ultra-violet rays to plant and animal diseases. With the aid of fused quartz produced by Edward R. Berry of the Lynn General Electric Company, results were produced and ultra-violet rays were pronounced valuable in the curing of rickets in children. President Little recently called the X-ray harmful to the human body, after he had experimented extensively with its effects on mice...
...major sports are now quartered on the second floor; the track teams, both University and Freshman are again in the east wing of the building, while the football teams, University, Seconds, and Freshman, share the rest of the second floor with the doctor's office, the new X-ray room, and the rubbing room. The last three are centrally located at the head of the main stairway...
Occasional cures are affected-in Hawaii, with Chaulmoogra oil; in the U. S. with injections of bichloride of mercury, with arsenic; X-ray treatment affects temporary relief. Lepers are daily boiled in hot baths; given strychnine; put on a diet. After a period of eight years, the disease sometimes vanishes...
...significance of the discovery (if valid) is that it will open a new field for cancer-cure experiments, using the X-ray purged of its injurious radiations...
Director Edward W. Forbes '95 of the Fogg Art Museum, has received a grant to be used to study the chemistry of paints and the preservation of pictures, as well as for the investigation of the possible use of the x-ray for the detection of picture forgeries...